Programme Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 86% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programme Analyst roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 454 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Programme Analyst according to 454 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 16%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
Personality test: 11%
Background check: 11%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 7%
Drug test: 5%
Phone interview: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Apr 2011
Interview
These are the steps from 1 to 4 for Interview process:
1. Aptitude - Verbal and Non-verbal (No Quant)
2. GD - Kind of Extempore with swapping of topics (focuses on Comm. skills only).
3. Technical Interview - Last for 15 mins (Mainly Focuses on your learning area)
4. HR Interview - Kind of formality (Be specific)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Unexpected thing was to swap the topic with someone and speak out instantly on that.
Difficult question was asked by Technical Interviewer : Given a practical scenario of my subject or technical interest, and I need to solve it through my knowledge of that technical area.
Two interviews with coding test and and aptitute test , pretty easy , aske about projects done and java oops questions also sql question , position was full stack developer
We had many rounds like 3 rounds before interview and interview was quite good. I got selected into cognizant as and programmer analyst trainee. I did not focus much on java, so due to that i Got 4 lpa
They asked very basic questions of reversing a string java basics and sql introduction and asked some data structures concepts finally few hr questions so on finally interviewer looks very strict interview got rejected